Why There’s More to the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra Than Winning Elections

Two images from previously today appropriately paint an informing image of today state of affairs in India. Among them is the sight of Prime Minister Narendra Modi indulging in the magnificence of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya and announcing in his speech that Ram is the faith, structure, believed and law of India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Ram Mandir consecration event on Monday. Image: Screengrab from DD News While the prime minister’s words leave little scope for creativity about how his ideas remain in total sync with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s concept of a Hindu rashtra, it might simply deserve pointing out as a footnote that the significance of his speech totally sinks in when we bear in mind that a minimum of on paper (and the constitution pictured by B.R. Ambedkar), India is (albeit still) a nonreligious nation. While all pretence of the state not having a main religious beliefs was being shredded to pieces in Ayodhya, more than 1,000 kilometres away, there was another invocation of Ram, this time Mahatma Gandhi’s Ram, in Assam, where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and individuals of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra were stopped from going into the Batadrava Than trip website by the BJP federal government in the state. The sight of Gandhi resting on the roadway, with individuals shouting ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’– the bhajan popularised by Mahatma Gandhi– was a plain pointer of what lies beyond the shine in Ayodhya, where Bollywood motion picture stars and industrialists swarmed in customized conventional outfit to participate in the consecration event of the temple constructed on the side where 3 years ago a mosque was taken down by Hindutva infantryman. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was implied to check out the birth place of the 15th-century Vaishnavite spiritual leader, Srimanta Shankardev, phases a sit-in in Assam, on January 22. Picture: X/@INCIndia. After being rejected entry into the expedition website, Gandhi wryly informed press reporters, “Only one individual is permitted to get in the temple today,” taking a potshot at the prime minister, whose existence at the pran pratishtha routine was telecast by all media channels of the nation. The 2 visuals, on
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